[Xapian-devel] Next Steps.

[Olly Betts]

Hi Tejas,

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Tejas Nikumbh <tejasnikumbh at gmail.com>wrote:
> > I've been able to build xapian on my machine without any errors via
> > the Guidelines on the Hacking file in Xapian core. I was wondering if there
> > are any simple issues in xapian which I might try and resolve in order to
> > get familiar with the codebase and push a few commits?

There's a list of "bite size" projects here, which are a good place to
start:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas

For the weighting schemes project, trying to add support for an
additional normalisation to TfIdfWeight would help give you an idea
of what's involved.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:58:29PM +0530, Tejas Nikumbh wrote:
> To be more specific, I've gone through the documentation of xapian-letor
> and have been trying to look into libSVM. Also, for weighing schemes, I'm
> studying the various schemes as olly suggested.

Have you successfully built the latest xapian-letor?  I think the one
from the 2012 GSoC branch is probably the best starting point, but Parth
can probably give more insight into the current state of things.

There's a xapian-letor on trunk, merged after GSoC 2011, which isn't
built by default.  If you "rm xapian-letor/.nobootstrap" and rerun
the bootstrap script, it should get built.

Cheers,
    Olly